Intuit and GoFundMe have launched a Small Business Relief Initiative. The effort is designed to have small businesses and their friends initiate fundraising.
Through QuickBooks, Intuit is committing up to $1 million through “a fund and employee-directed contributions, while also seeking donations from other large partners”.
Those interest can visit Small Business Help to create GoFundMe pages for free. Intuit says businesses should share the fundraiser #SmallBizRelief and tag Intuit Accountants (on Facebook and Twitter).
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind